"Once upon a midnight dreary" — Edgar Allan Poe
"Once upon a midnight dreary"
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Edgar Allan Poe
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323 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe has 323 quotes on this site.
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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it…
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... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not…
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so…
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Grammar is the analysis of language.
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application,…
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion,…
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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man…
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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More Dreary Quotes
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one of 141 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again…
— Swami Vivekananda
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So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of…
— Alan Watts
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.
— Edith Hamilton
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Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the…
— William Wordsworth
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If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home…
— Johannes Kepler
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He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand'…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment,…
— Anthony Hopkins
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LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We…
— Terence McKenna
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